The corpus record

σβέσ-ις

sbesis · ἡ

quenching, putting out

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Where it lives

De juventute et senectute, De vita et morte 2 · 10.88/10k
De Respiratione 3 · 4.94/10k
Meditations 2 · 0.69/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

σβέσ-ις · sbes-is — LSJ

quenching, putting out, extinction, cooling

quenching, putting out, or (from Pass.) extinction, πυρὸς σ. καὶ μάρανσις Arist. Resp. 474b14, cf. Juv. 469b23, Thphr. Ign. 60, D.H. 2.67; opp. διάλαμψις, Arist. Mete. 370a24; κατὰ τὴν σ. while cooling, Dsc. 1.100.

II cancellation

metaph., cancellation, δίκης PLond. 5.1708.248 (vi A.D.).

In the wild

σβέσιν · sbesin Aristotle, De juventute et senectute, De vita et morte (DIORISIS sentence 35)
σβέσιν · sbesin Aristotle, De juventute et senectute, De vita et morte (DIORISIS sentence 36)
σβέσις · sbesis Aristotle, De Respiratione (DIORISIS sentence 177)
σβέσις · sbesis Aristotle, De Respiratione (DIORISIS sentence 81)
σβέσις · sbesis Aristotle, De Respiratione (DIORISIS sentence 81)
σβέσιν · sbesin Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9056)

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